Talk:Washington State Route 290

December 2019 edits
Thank you, SounderBruce for reviewing my edits. I am sorry that I failed to meet Wikipedia standards. I did my best effort to read/find/link each reference source document, be it a map or law publication. I wish to highlight some information in references that you reverted so someone else more familiar with best practices can improve the article.


 * Note 1 regarding this edit. The Sessions Laws of the State of Washington, 1937, Chapter 207, Page 999 reference uses a Google Books link. Unfortunately, the Google Books page does not show the text except portions near specific text strings that one is able to locate by the search function; the entire text is not available. The Internet Archive snapshot you added via IABot does not correct this problem. I would recommend you add the PDF linked to by this Washington State Legislature page.
 * This reference, along with a link to this 1955 topographical map accompanies the statement "'In 1937, the road became Secondary State Highway 2H (SSH 2H) and ran from Primary State Highway 2 in Spokane to Wellesley Avenue at the Idaho state border.'". I was unable to verify this statement using the references provided; neither Wellesley Avenue or Secondary State Highway 2H is indicated on the referenced map, much less where SSH—2H's eastern terminus is exactly located. Therefore, I decided to add this 1939 map (specifically for this section) to at least show the reader the eastern terminus of SSH 2H. The map is appropriate since it shows highway 2-H and was published only 2 years after 1937. I did not remove mention of "Wellesley Avenue" since I imagine a source for this part of the statement may exist.


 * Note 2 regarding this edit. Regarding the 1901 USGS map source showing that the Great Northern Railway and Northern Pacific Railway existed as far back as 1901, the reference's link as I found it was dead and even the link you added via the IABot fails to show the image since it appears that Washignton State University displayed such historical images via a flash applet called Zoomify which appears incompatible with Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. I searched and found a live copy of the map served by data.gov instead of wsu.edu. However, I see that I should have linked to this data.gov URL instead of directly to the AWS URL that the data.gov website uses. The map was created by "R.U.Goode", "S.S.Gannet", and "H.Manning"; the copy at data.gov is a 1939 reprint of the May 1901 map.


 * Note 3 regarding this edit. This change was caught up in your reverting of my other edits. It is the addition of a URL for a reference lacking a URL. The reference is Chapter 145 of the 1967 Session Laws of the State of Washington that supports the claim that SSH 2H's eastern terminus was shifted in 1967 to meet the western terminus of Idaho State Highway 53.

Thank you for your time. Balta katei  21:10, 30 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for explaining things here. In the future, please use the edit summary field when making edits and follow the existing page formatting for citation style/templates, dates, and variant of English. It would also help to look at existing (but recent) article in the field, like Washington State Route 504, to learn the style in use. I will make a few of the changes needed to keep this article in compliance with GA guidelines, which is also something to check out.  Sounder Bruce  02:15, 31 December 2019 (UTC)